registrar · Department-of-domains, LLC · IANA 876

Department-of-domains, a SnapNames/NameJet drop-catch registrar

drop catching

Department-of-domains was one of SnapNames/NameJet’s 518 drop-catch registrars in 2025. That year it made 628,964 attempts to register deleted .com domains and caught 33 domains.

Who catches expiring .com domains →

Department-of-domains held 106 domains in October 2025. It holds domains in 2 generic TLDs. In .com, its largest, it held under 0.1% of all domains.

106
domains, October 2025
11th
Newfold Digital family, 2012-round TLDs

Department-of-domains’ share of the 2 TLDs it sells most in

June 2026

The tick marks its 0.0% across its 0 largest TLDs. Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

Where Newfold Digital ranks in the new TLDs

By June 2026, Newfold Digital’s registrars held 1,309,494 domains in the new TLDs from ICANN’s 2012 round, 2.2% of them, eleventh among registrar groups. Namecheap’s registrars held the most: 11,276,866.

  1. Namecheap19.1%
  2. GMO Internet Group14.3%
  3. GoDaddy12.6%
  4. Dynadot7.4%
  5. NameSilo5.0%
  6. Newfold Digital2.2%

Domains in the 2012-round TLDs by registrar group. Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

do customers stay?

July 2025 to June 2026

From July 2025 to June 2026, Department-of-domains customers renewed 83% of their expiring domains: 70 renewed, 14 let go. More domains moved away from Department-of-domains than to it: 0 in, 34 out.

70 renewed14 let go
0 moved in34 moved out

Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

domains, all tlds

October 2025 to October 2025
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Oct 2025 to Oct 2025

Department-of-domains’ domains in every generic TLD. Source: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

month by month

domains by tld

October 2025